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The origin of the surname Lin, the origin of the surname Lin
Surname: Lin
Pinyin: Lin
County: Xihe County
Celebrities: Lin Shihong, Lin Zexu, Lin Yutang, Lin Biao, Lin Yanggang
Attractions: Zhangpu Wushi Lin Family Temple
Documents: Xihe Lin Family Genealogy, Three Thousand Years Genealogy of the Lin Family, Descendants of Bigan
History: Lin is the 16th most common surname in China today. They account for a relatively high proportion among southerners. There are more than 1.8 million people in Taiwan, accounting for 9% of the total population. They rank second after Chen, so they are known as "Chen Lin Half the World" Good name. The surname Lin was first derived from the surname Zi, which was formed in the early Western Zhou Dynasty and was a descendant of Bigan, a royal family of the Shang Dynasty. At the end of the Shang Dynasty, King Zhou was dissolute and immoral, and the people were miserable. King Zhou's uncle Bigan, even though other royal family members such as Wei Zi and Ji Zi did not listen to their advice and left one after another, he still risked his life to remonstrate, and was finally executed by King Zhou by disembowelment and dissection. Bigan's wife, Chen, was pregnant at the time. After hearing the news, she fled overnight to the Makino area to seek refuge. She gave birth to a child in a cave in the mountains, named Jian, with the courtesy name Changsi. Soon, King Wu of Zhou destroyed the Shang Dynasty. Mrs. Chen took her son to join King Wu Jifa and received good treatment. King Wu also gave Jian the surname Lin because he was born in the woods. Therefore, Lin Jian became the ancestor of the surname Lin. The surname Lin also has other origins. For example, the surname Lin also comes from the surname Ji, who is the descendant of Lin Kai, the youngest son of Ji Yijiu, King of Zhou Ping; there are also descendants of Lin Fang from the state of Lu; by the time of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, because the capital was moved to Luoyang , and once changed the Qiulin clan of the Xianbei people in Daibei to the surname Lin. The Lin surname was first developed in Hebei. In the Qin Dynasty, people with the Lin surname moved to Shandong. In the Western Han Dynasty, people with the Lin surname migrated to Sichuan. During the Three Kingdoms period, the Lin surname in the Central Plains was politically persecuted and a large number of people moved south to Jiangsu and Zhejiang. By the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, it had developed. Arrived in Fujian. During the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, Lin Zhixiang's son Lin Jian became the first person named Lin to arrive in Taiwan. The main settlement areas with the Lin surname are: Xihe, Nan'an, Boling, Nanjun, Xiapi, Jin'an, Houguan, Futang, Changle, Lianjiang, Wenling, Qingxi, Dehua, Hui'an, Longxi, Zhangpu , Qiongzhou, Great Wall, Guangshan, Lingnan, Zhejiang and Hangzhou, Jiangxi, etc. During the imperial examination era, there was a saying in the Fujian Provincial Examination that "there will be no results without Lin", which meant that Lin's family in Fujian not only had a large population, but also a lot of talents.